Discovering Stories

[This story will become free on June 15th 2022] In the sequel to When Best Friends Kiss, Liam is faced with the life Alex has built without him. Can their love survive when they've become so different? ***** Fresh out of university and settled into a new apartment, Liam and Alex are ready to start their life together. While Alex finds passion in journalism and has more friends than he can count, Liam is frustrated with his photography and awkward around Alex's LGBTQ friends. Seeing the life Alex has built without him, and how different they've become, Liam finds his insecurities resurfacing and mental health spiraling downwards. After the time they've spent apart, do Liam and Alex really belong together? Or will their love story end before it starts its next chapter? (Sequel to When Best Friends Kiss.) [[word count: 30,000-40,000 words]]

The story of the Younger Sibling is often neglected. This is the Life of Arthur Leywin's Younger Brother as he learns the Dark Truth of his World, as well as who he truly is. A Boy Born with an incredible affinity for mana and a destiny set out for him by figures born of another world. This story has heavy story elements, including Characters and concepts taken from Various works by Kinoko Nasu. The Beginning after the End is owned exclusively by TurtleMe23, and I claim no ownership of any of the Cast except any OCs.

⭐ Disclaimer Peer-e-Kamil is an original Urdu novel written by Umera Ahmed. The simplified-English version or Roman-Urdu translation provided here is only a reader-friendly adaptation created on request. All rights to the original story, characters, and content belong to the author Umera Ahmed and the official publishers

What do you do if your friends set you up on a date without telling you, and the only person you can reach is a Grab driver? That was the situation New faced, and he's grateful someone was able to help him out. I do not claim ownership of the characters; they are their own entities. This is a work of fiction and does not reflect on anyone.

History of time and space

"Darkness doesn't always hide. Sometimes, it blinds." *** Emmanuella Orinomwen Ignenedion. Meticulous. Pristine. Disciplined. Clean. A wonderful assistant pastor to my father's mega-church. That is the script I feed to the world. To my parents, I am the perfect, submissive daughter. But that is only what they are permitted to see. They have never heard the screams silenced by the fire. Or the nightmares' golden promise of unyielding terror. For a long time, I preferred it that way. I buried my survival inside a tight-knit bubble of schedules. Out of sight, out of mind. But my clockwork existence shattered the moment Mary forced her way into my orbit. Unpredictable. Uninvited. An eye that saw what no one else had seen. And she made me see too. Darkness. Gross darkness that fueled my father's church. A rotting ledger of hidden cash, stolen lives, and an ancient malice hiding right beneath our pristine marble floors. With her, I realized: Words can be as thick as knives. Smiles as thin as paper. And blood can ripple as cold as deep water. Holiness or piety is not by mere words or appearance. Because I know, now better than anyone, that anything can be faked. As even the devil masquerades as an angel of light. I spent my life blind to the abyss in my own home. This is the story of how I stopped pretending. Note: mentions of some triggering content in this book

✩₊˚.⋆☾𓃠☽⋆⁺₊✧𓅓❦. Awakening in a lavish, unfamiliar chamber, the girl discovers their body feels foreign, their reflection unrecognizable, and silence heavy with secrets. Escaping through disguise and desperation, they stumble into a city alive with danger, where strange people, carriages, and magic blur the line between survival and fate. As she wanders, curiosity leads her astray. In a shadowed alley, she discovers a stone abandoned by unknown hands. Drawn to its quiet pull, she keeps it, unaware of the power it conceals. Each step forward becomes a lesson, each encounter a revelation, as the stone begins to unravel its hidden truths - and with them, the fate she never asked for but cannot escape. As she leaned deeper into the stone's strange power, whispers of its magic began to spread - rumors that drew strangers together, uncertain whether they were foes or allies. Each discovery pulled her further into a world far stranger than she had ever imagined, where danger and wonder walked side by side. She must navigate the unknown, even as the boundary between truth and illusion grows perilously thin. *This marks my very first attempt at writing an isekai with a system of my own creation. Before this, I only tried reincarnation through a fanfiction of a cartoon - but now, I'm stepping into something new, something that belongs entirely to me. I know there may be mistakes along the way, but I hope you'll read with patience and share in the journey with me. I want this story to stand apart from others - not bound by the usual roles of protagonist, antagonist, or side character. She is simply someone who wants to have fun and survive her own way in unexpected ways, existing outside the rules of the tale. 🔥This contains elements of fear and some violence. 𖤓Please no plagiarism!

As Far as Tales go, the one who will shatter the world of the supernatural. Judah Steele, Who wonders in despair as a homeschooled 'sitting duck'..soon discovers the life he once gave up hope for. Later experiencing many roller coasters that eventually brought him a lot of gratitude. This series is My own personal depiction of the supernatural World. For worse or better, in advance I'll give my apologies or admiration Of the events that take place. Judah falls for a Potential monarch? 🧐😅

In a world where witches are born with magic in their blood, Luz Noceda was born empty. The Boiling Isles does not tolerate defects. Witches look down on her, and the coven scouts want nothing to do with her. Her only future seems to be scrubbing cauldrons for witches who treat her like she's invisible. But Luz Noceda possesses something others do not: she pays attention. While others cast magic without thinking, she notices symbols briefly flashing inside their spell circles. She draws them on scrap paper. She draws them in her logbook. Then, one night, one of her drawings glows. Luz Noceda is ready to join the coven scouts and prove to everyone in the Demon Realm that she is as good a witch as anyone. And she is not leaving without a badge. Scrap magic: she discovered what everyone thought did not exist.

In the year 2055, Mr Charles Wikami, owner of Wikami Space Station, has found intelligent life on the planet Valdazia in the Andromeda galaxy. A team of seven highly trained astronauts and 3 scientists were sent on the mission to be the first humans to land on Valdazia, to study the species. However, when their frieghter jet, WSS 3 crashes onto the planet, the Valdazians offer them a deal- if the crew participates in their games, they'll repair the spaceship and let them leave. What the Valdazians dont mention, is that the games have a deadly twist, and only one can survive and go home. this story is inspired by the game Mouthwashing, made by Wrong Organ.

It has been 27 years since the crew from the Sunlighter-31, A spaceship conformed by a crew of 8 and the best AI model were send out from Earth with an unknown mission, while the time passed, the crew got cryogenized in hopes of advancing where no human has ever been without dying. Cael, a member of the main crew, wakens up from his slumber, only to find out no one is there anymore, and that he can't remember anything but faint memories of his past, yet, he wants to find his world, or at least, his crew, and beat this mysterious solar system he has woken up in

I was tired of everything. The ceiling. The bills. The three jobs that added up to nothing. I just wanted somewhere quiet. I found something else entirely. Two Nigerians. One boat. No destination. What we discovered will change the map of the world forever. Book 1 of the OASIS Trilogy.

Three love stories intertwine in this emotional odyssey spanning 60 years and ranging between 1960's Oxford and modern day Spain. As a struggling writer learns of the heart-rending events leading to his mother's untimely death, he's finally able to accept his own feelings for the woman he loves, and rediscover a deep affection for his long estranged father.

poetry & loving, random thoughts.

Chiara Giordano was born and raised in the U.S. until her father died and her mother took her and her siblings back to her home country, France. Years later, Chiara moves back to the U.S. for her last year of her degree in a exchange program with st Cloud university in Minessota where her cousin and best friend also studies. There, she meets Adrian Vidal, from the neighbour college. One spontaneous night spent together creates a lasting bond between both of them, that can't go away. The problem? He's her cousin's biggest rival on the ice and he's in love with his best friend's sister. But they can't seem to keep away from each other as Adrian faces the pressure of family and being the team captain while Chiara tries to figure out where she belongs and what she wants to do with her life after her last year of college while playing on the college rugby team. Maybe what they need is exactly what they can't have

A story that begins where most endings happen... Sara and Aariz have found peace - but their journey is not over. Now, they walk a path without maps... guided by faith, love, and inner truth. This is not just a story. It is a journey of the soul. If you have ever searched for meaning... this story will find you. 🌙

*First time writing a story! Excited to try some stuff out, PLEASE ENJOY! *** I don't exactly remember anything from my past life. In fact, I'm not sure if I had a past life at all. I've been reincarnated as a girl named Lucifina in the 1500s, and I've been given some of her memory, though it was only bits and pieces. She's been chosen for something, I know it, but for what? Why her? ... Why am I in this world posing as her?

Three adventure-seeking teenagers travel together to Costa Rica during the holidays to visit Salomey's grandmother. However, the Costa Rican jungle is no walk in the park. The companions begin to fear for their lives. Torn between life, death, love, and friendship, alone and lost, a nighttime walk can turn into the adventure of a lifetime.

Before Sanja knew the language of roots and leaves, before her hands learned to heal or defend, she knew only one truth: she had survived the wrong birth. Her twin brother died before drawing breath, and his absence filled the house more completely than she ever could. Grief lived in the unused chair, in the silence after her laughter, in her mother's searching eyes. By three, Sanja had mastered the art of becoming small - moving softly, asking little, learning that quiet children require no explanation. Then one cold morning, her parents dressed her warmly, packed a small bag, and took her up the mountain. They called it kindness. Perhaps it was. But Sanja remembered the road, the rising trees, and the certainty that no one had asked if she wanted to go. The cottage waited where the forest thinned. Herbs hung from the rafters; birds argued in the eaves. The woman who opened the door was called Nanna. She looked at Sanja not as a burden, but as someone who had finally arrived. That difference was too small for a child to name, yet large enough to change her life. Nanna taught her the names of plants, the patience of animals, and the discipline hidden inside fear. The mountain became school, shelter, weapon, and home. Years later, when Sanja stood between frightened children and those who hunted them, she still carried one question from that first abandonment: Why was I not enough?

Dyrielle, a kind hearted mermaid, is living a perfect life under the sea healing other merfolks with her loving father, Orion- the greatest healer of the ocean. Until one day, she suddenly saw flashes of human memories.. as if it was hers - cooking, walking, laughing, running. She got curious of what it was but her father only forbid her to do so, not by anger, but by fear. As she touch more human things, memories become more stable, voices become clearer, and faces become more familiar. She went to the surface only to find out that the memories are real. But the person who owns the memory passed away 13 years ago. Two family, two places, two memories, two different name. She needs to find out why can she see her memories when she was still alive and what does it have to do with her? Why is her father restrict her in finding it out? Is there something his father keeping from her?